> Joe Greco wrote: > > Really? Wouldn't it be nice, then, if Digium explicitly stated that this > > was their intention, in their little agreements? > > > > [snip] > > > That'd be the FSF calling this both "ethically tainted" and showing a loss > > of "moral standing". I'd be happy to put it to them to see if there is a > > more specific opinion covering the case where a copyright holder actually > > forces contributors to sign away their rights. > > Digium doesn't force anyone to do anything. You are not required to > have your patches put into Digium's source tree.
Which is, to say, the tree which is also the GPL'd Asterisk distribution. > If you don't like the > terms of the license then you don't have to use Asterisk nor do you have > to contribute to Asterisk. Asterisk is put forth as an "open source" telephony solution. I've just shown that the FSF, the people who wrote the license in question, seem to have a certain disdain for this particular use. Your only answer is "so don't use it"? I'll take that as a concession. > Which of the two DIFFERENT Digium disclaimers do you have a problem with? > > http://www.digium.com/disclaim.changes > or > http://www.digium.com/disclaimer.txt > > Anyone that gets caught by suprize should have read the disclaimer more > carefully. The first one, in particular, isn't very clear on what is happening "under the sheets." There are a number of open source projects which make you sign various disclaimers, just to make sure that the contribution is clear of any work-made-for-hire claims, etc. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
